The cave in which Jesus Christ was buried has been found in Jerusalem, claim the makers of a new documentary film.

If it proves true, the discovery, which will be revealed at a press conference in New York Monday, could shake up the Christian world as one of the most significant archeological finds in history.

The coffins which, according to the filmmakers held the remains of Jesus of Nazareth, his mother Mary and Mary Magdalene will be displayed for the first timeon Monday in New York.

Jointly produced by Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici and Oscar winning director James Cameron, the film tells the exciting and tortuous story of the archeological discovery.

The story starts in 1980 in Jerusalems Talpiyot neighborhood, with the discovery of a 2,000 year old cave containing ten coffins. Six of the ten coffins were carved with inscriptions reading the names: Jesua son of Joseph, Mary, Mary, Matthew, Jofa (Joseph, identified as Jesus brother), Judah son of Jesua (Jesus son - the filmmakers claim).

Decades of research

The findings in the cave, including the decipherment of the inscriptions, were first revealed about ten years ago by internationally renowned Israeli archeologist Professor Amos Kloner.

Since their discovery, the caskets were kept in the Israeli Antiquities Authority archive in Beit Shemesh, but now two have been sent to New York for their first public exhibition.

Although the cave was discovered nearly 30 years ago and the casket inscriptions decoded ten years ago, the filmmakers are the first to establish that the cave was in fact the burial site of Jesus and his family.

The film, which documents the stages of the discovery, is the result of three years labor and research. It will be broadcast on the international Discovery Channel, Britain's Channel 4, Canadas Vision and Israels Channel 8, which also took part in the film's production.

According to the filmmakers, the films claim is based on close work with world-famous scientists, archeologists, statisticians, DNA specialists and antiquities experts.

Well it's on! Hollywood smelled blood when The DaVinci Crap (I mean Code) did over 700 million dollars worldwide. Now they are going right for the jugular. Wonder how many more will go apostate after this garbage.

Well it's on! Hollywood smelled blood when The DaVinci Crap (I mean Code) did over 700 million dollars worldwide. Now they are going right for the jugular. Wonder how many more will go apostate after this garbage.

Those sneaky Hollywood types... They even arranged for these coffins to be found years before the book was written, so they can deny planting the evidence!

Coffins? They found stone coffins that supposedly contained the remains of poor peasants in an economically depressed corner of the Roman Empire?

Does anyone realize how expensive it was to be interred in a stone coffin? In that time and place, people (who could afford it) placed dead bodies in caves until they decomposed. A year later, the bones were collected and burined in a small bone-box called an ossuary. Poor Jewish peasants were not buried in stone sarcophogi.

>> If it proves true, the discovery, which will be revealed at a press conference in New York Monday, could shake up the Christian world as one of the most significant archeological finds in history. <<

If Shiite-radical coral polyps build a spaceship so they can mine Pluto for Froot Loops for their annual Bob Hope look-alike contest, it might also shake up the Christian world.

Although the cave was discovered nearly 30 years ago and the casket inscriptions decoded ten years ago, the filmmakers are the first to establish that the cave was in fact the burial site of Jesus and his family.

If there's a "whacko conspiracy pinglist" out there, I want to be on it!

I here you there my brother, they said in the article the cave has been know for 30 years and have been decifering the inscriptions for ten? give me a break! And now they are gonna propagandise this rubbish just like evolutionists! Why havent they let everyone see this "so called" evidence long before now and they have been hiding it in Israeli athourty? I smell absolute fraud in the making!!!!

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